[Opentac2-developers] Application level security

[Seth M. <mr...@ph...>]

Hi everyone,

I just did a big checkin and implemented Application level security via 
SecurityFilter (http://securityfilter.sourceforge.net) thanks to 
Veljar's suggestion. This means that to authenticate for a particular 
role, we now simply begin each action's path with the role type. E.g.,

	/student/welcome.do

or

	/instructor/welcome.do

See src/webapps/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml and 
src/webapps/securityfilter-config.xml for more info. This couples nicely 
with Varma's edu.gmu.opentac2.webapp.action.SecurityAction. Now each 
action should extend this and we then have complete segregation for each 
role. Please let me know if there are any deficiencies in this scheme.

This brings me to menuing. Are there any tiles experts out there that 
would like to create a menuing system?

Best,

Seth

P.S. Is anyone interested in having a meeting? I'd really like to hash 
out how we're to interoperate! Thanks!